Chapter 242

War drums.

Resounding on the yellow-brown ground where the grass grew, a thin weed was repeatedly trampled by the feet of the Han soldiers. Every time it wanted to stand up, but before it could get up, it was trampled down again.

Liu Bang, who had made up his mind to fight, had red eyes, and his hands with exposed blue veins tightly clasped the shaft of the car. When teams of Han soldiers were wearing fiery red armor and carrying various weapons passing by his car, Liu Bang couldn't help but scream and started shouting loudly.

"The strong wind, the strong wind rises and the clouds fly. How can you get a strong man to guard all directions?"

The desolate Chu spoke and Liu Bang's hoarse voice made the Han army's war song spread quickly. Xiahou Ying, Xiao He and Lu Wan and other Han army generals were stammering their lips and humming loudly with the rhythm. After a while, the song became the clarion call for the Han army to go out to fight.

Without the brave and fearless generals, Liu Bang used war songs to boost morale. In this decisive battle, the Han army almost came out in full swing.

More than 90,000 troops were divided into three divisions by Liu Bang, of which 50,000 were the central army, led by him personally, and the actual command was handed over to the general Xiahou Ying to carry out.

There are 20,000 people on the left wing, commanded by the newly promoted young Han general Jin Xu. Jin Xu is a doctor around Liu Bang. In terms of loyalty, he is a good person. Liu Bang doesn't have to worry about whether he will use all his strength, nor does he have to think about whether Jin Xu's left wing will be timid before fighting.

Under the influence of Chen Xi's mutiny, Liu Bang became more and more conservative in employing people, which made a group of new generals and officers of the Han army lose the best opportunity to prove themselves. The right wing of the Han army was handed over to Mei Juan, the Yue generals from Wuling. The five tigers of the Mei family brought a total of 3,000 soldiers this time, and more than 12,000 troops belonging to Mei Juan. The Han army on the right wing also reached about 15,000.

It's just this incident that you're going to sell your money.

The heroic Liu Bang left only a few less than a thousand old men to guard the camp. The other soldiers each carried more than ten days of dry food and his own personal valuables to embark on the battlefield of death.

Even Xiao He, a civilian official in charge of logistics, followed Liu Bang, and Yingdu's internal affairs do not need to worry about him anymore.

In this battle, everything would be fine if the Han army won.

If he was defeated, Xiao He would not need to go back to Nanjun to face a series of problems that made him headache. In order to raise the food and fodder of a 100,000 army, Xiao He could say that he had used various methods, including intimidation, threats, and Xu Nuo. After writing countless empty checks and plundering some surplus grains from many local people in Nanjun, Xiao He left with the people of Nanjun in unison.

It can be imagined that no matter whether the Han army wins or fails, waiting for the people of Nanjun will be an unforgettable summer. At that time, starving corpses are everywhere and the population is a inevitable result.

You should know that in the four-year war of Chu and Han in history, in order to support Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops fighting on the front line, countless Qin people in Guanzhong were starved to death. This is not clearly recorded in many historical books since the Han Dynasty. If it were not for the straightforward writing of the great historian Sima Qian, the people of Guanzhong who had been castrated, would not have mentioned how the people of Guanzhong had lived after the three rules.

For the Confucian scholars who praised the Han Dynasty, what they like to talk about is the allusion of the three chapters of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang entering Guanzhong to make laws. As for whether this agreement is implemented, it is completely out of consideration.

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Eat the water downstream.

Five miles east of Wolonggang is a natural pasture with green grass all over the field and open terrain. It is close to Chidao and is in the center of the two troops of the Qin and Han dynasties, so it will inevitably become the main battlefield for the decisive battle between the Qin and Han dynasties.

The morning mist dissipates.

Gan Yong held the bronze sword in his hand tightly and commanded his soldiers to form a formation in front of the formation with some anxiety. On his left, there were also a thousand Qin soldiers forming a square formation. Looking further away, the Qin army's square formations one after another, as if they were copied.

Qin general Han Xin was the leader of the left army to face the enemy head-on this time, and his big flag was behind Gan Yong's army. This arrangement shows that Han Xin has extraordinary confidence in the army under his command.

Under the big flag, Han Xin looked around and saw a red sun rising in the sky, illuminating half of the sky with clouds that were particularly red. In the distance, Han soldiers were also wearing red conquest jackets and shouted and ran closer.

The strong wind blew, causing the Qin army battle flag behind Han Xin to make a fierce sound, and whimpering horns sounded everywhere, making the battlefield that was about to be empty.

"Wuhou has an order. Today's battle will affect the life and death of the entire army. All generals and school officers must obey the orders. If there is any violation, they will beheaded to the correct military law." Sima, the military supervisor who was crossing the edges between the various military formations, shouted loudly. This voice was particularly clear against the heavy breathing of the Qin army soldiers.

The center of the Qin army formation.

Shenwu Hou Li Yuan was carefully looking at the formation of the Han army. Beside him, scouts and cavalry returned along the edge of the square formation from time to time. What they brought back was the deployment and formation of the Han army.

Only by knowing oneself and one’s enemy can one’s victory in a hundred battles.

In this decisive battle where no one can guess the result, Li Yuan was collecting as much information as possible to provide reference for the immediate war.

"Reported, General Han of the former army reported that the right wing of the Han army was close to a place less than a mile of our army. General Han asked if he would send a group of troops to fight to face the enemy."

"Tell Han Xin that he will be away and will not give any military orders, so he will make decisions on his own." Li Yuan ordered without looking back.

Han Xin was the chief general of the former army and the main force of the Qin army's 50,000 southern expedition. In terms of his personal abilities, Li Yuan felt that he did not need to teach him anything. As for on-site command, Li Yuan also believed in the self-judgment and intuition of generals at all levels. This intuition often influenced the progress of the battle.

Han Xin and Mei Juan.

The collision between these two generals opened the prelude to the decisive battle between the Qin and Han armies.

The arrogant Man Yue people were good at running, which made the right-wing Han army, which was dominated by them, gradually became the most sudden army. When the Man Yue people, who were not very particular about military discipline, saw the Qin army waiting for battle, their eyes were filled with excitement, as if these Qin people were the Qin army in the southern battle that was shot and killed by them in the jungle of Lingnan.

"Brother, look at the Qin people. After several years, they are still placing those bullshit square formations. They are really not making any progress." A thick and powerful man shouted loudly beside Mei Juan.

"Plum Calf, go and rush for it for a while. Remember, when you encounter the Qin crossbow troops, don't resist, come back quickly." Mei Juan, the leader of the right wing of the Han army and the leader of the Yue people, was in his forties. He was not tall, but he was very distinctive. His forehead was very prominent, his eyes were a little deep, and his appearance was not very similar to those of the Central Plains.

PS: Today's social engagement, I feel dizzy and the plot is inconsistent. That's all, I'll make up for it tomorrow.
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